Copyright, Private Copying, and Discrete Public Goods

Authors

Glynn S. Lunney Jr, Texas A&M University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2009

Journal Title

Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

ISSN

1533-3531

Abstract

Understanding if, and when, copyright should attempt to proscribe private copying deserves far more than the simplistic treatment it has so far received from a handful of courts. This Essay aims to begin that conversation. Part I begins by introducing simple models that compare the market and socially optimal production of continuous and discrete public goods models and discussing their implications for copyright. Part II will then focus on the limits of the market's ability to produce efficiently discrete public goods in the absence of government intervention. Part III will then consider the implications of the discrete public goods model for copyright. Finally, in Part IV, I offer some concluding thoughts.

First Page

1

Last Page

33

Volume Number

12

Issue Number

1

Publisher

Tulane University School of Law

Recommended Citation

Glynn S. Lunney Jr, Copyright, Private Copying, and Discrete Public Goods, 12 Tul. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 1 (2009).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/500